Kal Dosa (Kal Dosai), yet another sponge variety of dosa. This is one of the famous SouthIndian breakfast dish in most of the restaurants. Kal dosa is slightly thicker than the traditional dosa. Generally, in my younger days, my mom used iron tawa for kal dosa, but now in these days, we all are using non-stick tawa. We need to make thick dosa and we have to cook it only on one side. We can see lots of small pores around the dosa and the dosa would be very soft.

Kal Dosa | Kal Dosai

Kal Dosa with Kara Chutney is one of the famous combination served in hotels. We can serve this soft kal dosa with Tiffin Sambar or other types of chutney too.

Kal Dosa | Kal Dosai

Preparation Time

8-12 hours

Cooking Time

30 mins

Yield

25 Dosas

Kal Dosa | Kal Dosai

Ingredients:

Parboiled Rice

1 Cup

Raw Rice

1 Cup

Urid Dal

1/2 Cup

Fenugeek Seeds

1/2 teaspoon

Salt

To Taste

Oil

For cooking dosa

* 1 Cup Capacity = 250ml

Kal Dosa | Kal Dosai

Method:

Wash and soak both the rice in a vessel and dal and fenugreek seeds together in another vessel for 3 hours.

After 3 hours, drain the water from the urid dal and grind it in the mixer or grinder by sprinkling water little by little. We have to grind atleast for 10 minutes, till we get a ball like consistency and we can see bubbles coming up in the urid dal batter. Then take the urid dal batter in a vessel. Then drain the water from the rice and add it to the mixer and grind it to a smooth batter. Add the ground rice batter with urid dal batter and give a nice stir. Keep it overnight to ferment the batter. The next day, when the batter is fermented nicely, we can add salt and mix well. Adding salt in the beginning may delay the fermentation and hence I, usually add salt after fermentation only.

Heat a tawa in high flame and add a ladle of kal dosa batter and spread it little to make a thick dosa. When we start getting, pores all over the dosa, then we should lower the flame to minimum and add oil and cover the tawa with lid and allow the dosa to cook nicely. When the dosa is cooked completely, we can remove from tawa. We don't need to flip it off to other side.